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Author: Dr Helen Tyzack
newtyzack@gmail.comMy blogsites
- Mainland Discoveries Records of my explorations of landscapes on mainland Australia
- Touching the Tarkine Record of my exploration of Tasmania’s Tarkine wilderness
- Walking the Derwent The record of my walk from the mouth to the source of Tasmania’s Derwent River
Tag Archives: Food Garden
RTBG Thursday 20 Feb 2020
Unexpectedly I woke at 9.10 am. Often, at this time of day, I was already at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG). So my mind was all over the place as I raced to get ready. Then I did the … Continue reading
RTBG Thursday 13 February 2020
Perhaps blog followers have given up hope that a new blog post with garden details might be published. Sadly I have been stricken by a bad cold so have not volunteered in the Food Garden of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical … Continue reading
RTBG Thursday 9 January 2020
I was grateful when K offered me a lift to the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG). This gave us both a chance to emote strongly about the expected joys of being back volunteering in the Food Garden after the Christmas … Continue reading
RTBG Thursday 2nd January 2020
Today I was back at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) but not for volunteering in the Food Garden. Co-ordinator Adam was still away and therefore, without someone to oversee volunteers and unlock the tool shed, our volunteer team had … Continue reading
RTBG – 17 and 19th December 2019
What’s this, you may think? When you notice two dates in one week, you may wonder what this means. Remember the last post; it was about my new seed-sweeping experience. That was on a Tuesday. Okay – so now you … Continue reading
RTBG Tuesday 10 December 2019
Tuesday you see in the title and probably furrow a puzzling brow. Isn’t Thursday my day for volunteering at the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (RTBG) you think? In a far distant blog post I told you that the RTBG has … Continue reading
Posted in Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Tasmania
Tagged asmanian Seed Conservation Centre, Food Garden, Freycinet peninsula, Freycinet waxflower, Philotheca freyciana, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG, seed collecting, seed harvesting, seed orchard, seed sweeping, Tasmania, waxflower
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Was I nettled? No
I was bound to collect weeds. I had a weed soup to make. Most of my fellow Food Garden volunteers were nervous about consuming weeds; ‘are they okay to eat’, was the frequent question. And some are. But which is … Continue reading
Posted in Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, Tasmania
Tagged Chard, Chives, chives flowering head, Food Garden, Garlic, nettles, olive oil, onion, Onion Weed, potato, potato weed, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, RTBG, Silverbeet, sorrel, soup, stinging nettles, vegetable stock, weed, weed soup
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